The pre-budget edition of The Zap via Croakey News
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Budget to pledge billions more in funds and fresh effort to tackle intractable housing crisis theconversation.com/budget-to-pled…

Claiming that the benefits of more fossil fuels today will trickle down to help the renewables industry of the future is as absurd as believing that cutting taxes for the rich helps the poor or that cutting wages helps workers #insiders #climate #auspol
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The Zap: slicing and dicing all the latest health and aged care news croakey.org/the-zap-slicin… #publichealth

After witnessing a couple of strong women transition to motherhood, this rural doctor is signing off for the night ✌️

Happy Mothers Day to all the mums here. And to all those who have lost, all those who are longing, we see you 🌈 ❤️

ICYMI, the ASMIRT conference has just wrapped up on Larrakia Country, in Darwin. Marie McInerney was there, reporting for Croakey News Conference Service.
Check the news at #ASMIRT2024 and stay tuned for some really interesting articles.
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It's a bumper edition of Croakey News, covering #HealthBudget2024 , #ClimateAction , #CeasefireNow , #HealthReform , #FightForAFairerWorld #RegulateDigitalPlatforms #PublicHealth
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Sad to see last episode of Sunday current affairs programme on TVNZ: the victim of an unwillingness &
/or incapacity to think outside the box on funding of long form current affairs programming. Who will tell NZers’ compelling stories now? Shameful. Miriama Kamo Michael Wood

Every day while I’m stuck at home (yay shoulder surgery) I’m going to be sharing a different fundraiser from a family in Gaza. I gave $5. That’s a coffee for most of you.

gofund.me/083f3467

In over 30 years of studying and engaging with communities affected by displacement, I have never seen a shocking atrocity like this. Multiple forced displacement of generations, compelled to be on the run.

The world is facing a shortage of health workers, particularly nurses & midwives, which could impact efforts to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

More from World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday’s #InternationalNursesDay : who.int/news-room/fact…

And that's a wrap of #ASMIRT2024 from Croakey, Marie McInerney signing off. Thanks very much ASMIRT for having the Croakey News Conference Service on deck. Stories to come, bookmark this link to follow: croakey.org/category/croak…

none of the aurora photos can ever really show the entire sky pulsing with light - i have never seen anything like it - seeing something so huge it is happening on a planetary scale - that doesn't happen very often - and i thought - what a waste of a perfectly good planet

more aurora as seen from the garden

QLDCountry GP Mark Butler MP I’m an adviser to the independent evaluation of urgent care centres so don’t comment for or against until evaluation complete

#GreatRead … pretty happy my copy just arrived ( hint… go to Chapter 10..)

Will the Australian Greens back the Nats' & One Nation's efforts to kill off Mark Butler MP's #vaping reforms? simonchapman6.com/2024/05/12/wil… Adam Bandt 💚🌏 Sarah Hanson-Young Senator Jordon Steele-John David Shoebridge Larissa Waters Mehreen Faruqi Barbara Pocock Nick McKim Senator Dorinda Cox Steph Hodgins-May

ASMIRT & NZIMRT come together for our next conference held in Adelaide, 27-30 March 2025